Lifting a Corner of the Research Rug: A Case for Meta-Interviews in Qualitative Studies.

Clarke, Anthony; Robertson, Alistair

Teaching and Teacher Education, v17 n7 p773-82 Oct 2001

Illustrates the use of meta-interviews, a research strategy for enhancing the credibility of claims made from analyses of interview data, drawing on experiences with meta-interviews in two studies conducted in South Africa and Canada. The paper concludes that meta-interviews can enhance the persuasiveness of research documents, bringing participants' voices to the forefront in an informative way. (SM)